Sex and Sexism?

Question

These are questions I'm supposed to ask other people for a class I'm taking. Please include the following information with your response...
Age, Sex, Occupation or Major, Ethnicity, Race

1) What is the role of men in American Society?
2) What is the role of women in American society?
3) What do sexism and sexist mean?
4) Is America sexist? How is this shown or not shown?

Answer 1

22, F, Assistant, White, American

1. Men are the bread winners
2. More and more single mothers in America. They are having to play the role of men and women. I think women are the head of the house in most families.
3. This is where you are discriminated against because of your gender.
4. I dont think so. We have a woman presidential candidate !

Answer 2

The United States has over 300 million people. 300 million very different people. The reality is the role that most Americans take on, regardless of gender, is working outside of the home to make money. I believe our society still believes that it is a man's role to work, no ifs, ands, or buts. Our society also expects women to work outside of the home, but finds it acceptable for a woman to also be a housewife. Another thing I guess you could call a role is how women still dominate in professions such as nursing, education, and clerical work, whereas men still dominate in manual labor jobs and professions involving science. Of course there are male nurses and teachers, as well as female factory workers and engineers, but those are generally the exception and not the rule.
Sexism is the idea and a sexist is the person who confine individuals to very rigid gender roles and then announces that because of the nature of these gender roles, one sex is superior to the other.
As I said, the US is a very diverse group. I think some groups in the US are sexist, whereas others are not.

My info:
21 years
female
English major
American
white

Answer 3

D.O.B: April 23rd 1957
Gender: Male
Occupation: Nurse
Ethnicity: (Nationality) Australian (Caucasian)
Race: Anglo-Saxon

1) To improve the status quo and promote well being and reform amongst the population.
2) To strive to achieve a better world.
3) a) The perpetration of discriminatory acts against a person of the other gender.
b) The willful compliance with 'a)' above.
4) Yes. All societies and structured hierarchically stratified cultures are to some extent overtly sexist. Why should the U.S. of A. be any different?

Answer 4

1) 2-legged wallets, scapegoats.
2) The ultimate subjects of subjectivities, entitled to have their cake, eat it too, and complain about how it's not enough.
3) the practice of making incorrect claims or inuendoes about what's intrinsic to a sex. Any incorrect imputations in this regard are sexist, including the claim that there are no differences, or that one sex is intrinsically evil.
3) This is a dumb question. A corporate entity like a state isn't "sexist". Behaviors and ideologies can be sexist, and people who partake of these consistently are sexist, but not states. The people and practices of a state can be sexist, but talking about whether America is sexist is an undisciplined, self-indulgent way of thinking that leads to other, more deeply self-indulgent thinking.
3a) Feminism is intrinsically sexist, and it promotes itself as promoting equality, while fudging the criteria of equality to address only feminine concerns (& its intellectual method, its metaphysical presuppositions, and the other aspects of framing the question so that its answers pop out predictably in its favor). It then excludes authentically masculine voices from the discourse, and demonstrates uterocentrism that mirrors past phallocentrism, but with feminine indulgences substituted for the masculine ones of the past. One might be charitable and ascribe this to its solipsism and ignorance, but from the outside, it is often tempting to treat it as calculating deception and bad faith. And given that feminism invented the critique that laid the phenomenon of gender-centrism out on the table, it's hard to excuse its uterocentrism with ignorance.

Answer 5

17, female, communications major, Jewish.

1) Whatever they want it to be.
2) See above.
3) Discriminatory treatment on the basis of sex; one who perpetrates this treatment.
4) Politically, not so much. Economically, yes, to women (feminization of poverty). Legally, yes, mostly to men (family law). Socially, yes, to both.

Answer 6

Age: 28
Sex: *smirk*
Occupation: Man
Ethnicity/Race: White British

1) To win
2) To be used by the winners
3) Apparently to devalue the opposite sex. To me this is just a good idea.
4) Yes and I'm too lazy to answer how so.